By Robert Emslie
Welcome to Track Tuesday where you are asked to identify a (maybe) famous race or test track from just one closely-cropped aerial image. This week, it’s a hairpin. Good luck!
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Circuit du Charade, occasional home of the French GP until someone took a rock to the eye.
Impressive! I was stuck on “who copied the Karussell?”
Thanks! Random abandoned track knowledge FTW!
That someone being Red Bull motorsports bigwig Helmut Marko.
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Yup, and it ended his driving career. The rock was thrown from Emerson Fittipaldi’s Lotus. Rocks on the track were a persistent problem since it’s built on the side of a volcano.